My Brother in Law works for this outfit, and he seems happy! Manchester is run by a very well respected and well known individual in the airline industry, a guy who started his career working for Freddie Laker amongst others and is really a nice guy!
Not the largest handling agent at MAN, but who says big is beautiful? I haven't heard any bad rumours on the ramp at MAN about them and they seem to have a good customer servie ethic as well.
There will always be those that malign a company for whatever reasons, personal or otherwise, and to be fair no company is perfect, the perfect job doesn't exist, it just becomes a "what is your tolerance" issue, that's all. They do seem to want experienced people though, as a smallish company they haven't got the time to train ab-initio ops/despatch. I understand that Servisair are the easiest to get a despatch job with, but you will have to take the 20 hour a week contract on the chin to get the experience. Then you can move to another with better T&C's in a couple of years, because the days of being able to walk into a well paid job in any industry are well and truly over, just ask any "megabucks" pilot under 30 how much of his "student" debt is still outstanding!"